Wiindows XPSP2 Firewall

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Marc

I have a firewall solution of my own on my network, even
thought I have turned off Windwos Firewall and asked it
not to monitor, I've even checked off warn me about
firewall settings, every time I restart or power up the
computer Windows popos up an annoying little bubble box
saying No firewall is turned on.

I've tried the same on another XP machine and the
behaviour is the same. Do I have to use Windows Firewall?
Can it be disabled any other way? Is there a registry key
I can change to kill it permanently - I don't need it as
I have an external hardware firewall that site between
the network and the WWW
 
Marc said:
I have a firewall solution of my own on my network, even
thought I have turned off Windwos Firewall and asked it
not to monitor, I've even checked off warn me about
firewall settings, every time I restart or power up the
computer Windows popos up an annoying little bubble box
saying No firewall is turned on.

I've tried the same on another XP machine and the
behaviour is the same. Do I have to use Windows Firewall?
Can it be disabled any other way? Is there a registry key
I can change to kill it permanently - I don't need it as
I have an external hardware firewall that site between
the network and the WWW
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Hi

If this is Security Center popups in the system tray:

Control Panel/Security Center, click on the "Change the Way Security
Center Notifies Me" link in the left pane.


If this setting is reset at each reboot, do the following:

Someone in another newsgroup thread indicated that a Symantec service
was the cause for this behavior on his computer (I can't remember in
what newsgroup though).

To "solve" this problem, disable the Security Center service:


Start/Run --> services.msc

Find "Security Center" in the list, double click on it, set
"Startup type" to Disabled.


There is also a Group Policy setting available to disable the
Security Center (Start/Run--> gpedit.msc).

Take a look at the chapter for the Security Center in
06_CIF_Maintenance.DOC

What settings are added or changed in Windows XP Service Pack 2?
Group Policy settings (page 26 for me)


06_CIF_Maintenance.DOC ("Changes to Functionality in Microsoft Windows XP
Service Pack 2, Part 6: Computer Maintenance") can be downloaded from here:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...d7-b791-40b6-8364-685b84158c78&DisplayLang=en

Note: WinXPSP2_Documentation.zip contains all the .doc downloads...
 
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